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Alex B:
My proposition would make e.g. this possible:

glynor:

--- Quote from: GHammer on July 03, 2006, 08:27:01 am ---I like the little critters.

I would like to see files differentiated by text color for imported, missing, not imported.
Easy enough then to tell the status of entries.
Alternatively, a small (3 times the size of a period) "LED" type graphic that would show status by color. Red=bad, Green=good, Yellow=speed up to beat the red light. Oops, Yellow=not imported.

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Same here (great idea on the LED graphic).

I don't know why.  It's irrational exuberance, but I like them.  They are mostly useless, though it does make it easy to see Album "borders" in larger lists (making scrolling through a larger list with multiple, ordered albums a slight bit easier).  That's about the only rational defense of them I can think of...

If they go, they go.  I certainly wouldn't mind Alex's idea either.  Especially if the Icons were used as the LED graphics (if you simplified and stylized the "images" icon, you could make them all into duotone images and easily apply the varying colors).  That idea really seems the most flexible...

I don't have any "not imported" files (I'm not fully sure of what that means... Do you just mean removable media, eg DVDs and CDA files?), but it would be nice if the LED graphic or Icon (whichever option is presented) would use a color (maybe yellow too or maybe blue) for media marked as "Removable".  I have lots of XviD AVIs in the library that are burned off to DVD (old TV show seasons, movies, and the like) and no longer available on my network drive.

GHammer:

--- Quote from: glynor on July 03, 2006, 09:10:45 am ---I don't have any "not imported" files (I'm not fully sure of what that means... Do you just mean removable media, eg DVDs and CDA files?), but it would be nice if the LED graphic or Icon (whichever option is presented) would use a color (maybe yellow too or maybe blue) for media marked as "Removable". I have lots of XviD AVIs in the library that are burned off to DVD (old TV show seasons, movies, and the like) and no longer available on my network drive.

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Sometimes I just drop things into Playing Now and do not import them into the library.
Blue is a nice color for removable media. These are way bigger than I have in mind, but you get the idea.

hit_ny:
I like alex's idea about the column for images, for checking attached album art that would be very quick to see. This prolly the only time i would really want to see them tho.

But maybe it's quicker to make a smartlist that can show missing image file instead for this purpose.

Hammer's idea about the dot's is interesting and i would like to take that a bit further, allow user configurable art to be used in this case.

Hammer mentions red, blue, yellow dots

red = missing
blue = ok
yellow = not imported

or a simple mapping table

this would be incredibly helpful to make graphical indicators of various states instead of having to read the state itself.

how many times do we hear ppl wanting to use another column of stars only to be told that it's not possible :)

Tho this is taking the idea even further in the sense the custom field can now also accept user input instead of only passively displaying state info.

datdude:

--- Quote from: Alex B on July 03, 2006, 08:42:35 am ---My proposition would make e.g. this possible:



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Rather than adding an adiditonal column, which takes up more space and would look really lame with both the 'status' column and cover column together, I would like to see this as an options setting to turn on or off for each view  scheme.

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